Fit, twenties should be going out to work/help.

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Name change incase this is outing.

Myself and my partner live alone, we’re both in our mid twenties and both healthy.

I used to be a community carer (predominantly elderly in their own homes) during uni/finding a grad job and I’ve applied for various hospital/care homes (I was self employed but that’s majority dried up). My partner has also applied for numerous roles as he’s been made redundant. We both have some saving that we could live on for a few months but I feel bad just sitting at home when we could be out there helping.

My partners mum has called him guilting him to stay at home and she’ll top up our basic savings as she says it’s too dangerous to be out there working. My partner has accepted her offer. I feel like a fraud - if every twenty something/key worker/those without vulnerable households were just sitting at home they’d be riots by the end of the weekend.

Do you think it’s only unfit people to get sick? And no one in their 20s get it?
You are aware that a 14 year old died from it last week? Several fit and in their 20s have got it and in hospital. If you can stay at home do.

Hang on... you want to go out, into old peoples' homes, and you can't see why this might be risky? At all?

The lockdown isn’t about protecting us as individuals, it’s to slow the spread.

I agree with you OP. If there are roles that need filling (I imagine there are especially in care work) then someone has to do them.

Yes if everyone did this society would collapse. But they won't. Most of us do not have rich family who can financially support us to stay at home.

I think it's brilliant you want to help OP. Lots of care jobs going at present.

I completely understand what you're saying.

I am currently working from home but I still felt bad that I wasn't doing enough to help so I signed up to volunteer to deliver food to the vulnerable but all the spots have been taken.

Stay in and keep yourself protected and after this is over then do some volunteer work or get a job in the NHS or something then, don't make yourself feel guilty over something you can't control.

If your do and his mum want to make an arrangement like that then that’s up to them, but they can’t decide whether you get a job or not. What you do is up to you. FWIW, I agree with you, if there’s work that needs to be done, then someone’s got to do it and it may as well be you.

I know they’re calling out for people to pick good at the moment. I would be doing that if I didn’t have children that need to be cared for.

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Yes, as you say this is one of the ways out of lockdown the gov is considering OP, so YANBU.

time.com/5818593/young-people-leave-coronavirus-lockdown/

I think we have a duty to do our bit. My husband and I are key workers but he has already said if furloughed he would volunteer driving for the NHS or wherever needed.
Crops are apparently dying in the fields because of the lack of migrant workers. We should be looking at the big picture.

I'm in my late 20s, have just recovered from the coronavirus (so in theory now hopefully immune!) and fit and healthy. A bit chunkier at the minute but we don't need to go in to that...

If anyone on the South Coast knows of any temp work I can actually get stuck in to, I'm your woman!

Why isn't there a drive to get the local people that are able out into the fields?

I would if I could.

Co-op stores are heavily recruiting

I think the mother is being silly. The death rate for people in their 20s is something like 0.2% of confirmed cases. And there are about five times as many cases as the official number, so you're more likely to crash your car than to die of this virus. You should be out there, people are acting like it's ebola, it's just not.

any age can get Corona, just because your in your 20s doesnt make you immune.. if you think that your dangerous to yourself and others around you.

STAY INSIDE AND SAFE

Did no-one read the link? Just been on the radio too, they are looking into this as one of the first steps out of lockdown.

I understand and admire your thinking. The work definitely needs to be done, it is terrifying too.

Being furloughed I’ve been told I can be recalled to work at any time and bosses are in touch most days so feel like they’re working to get us to be able to operate in some capacity as soon as possible so I feel if I took a job fruit picking or in a care home I would have to leave at a moments notice which may leave them in the shit

@Orangeblossom78 But surely they couldn't do it with anyone who lived with older people? A lot of people in their twenties are still at home with parents who will be in their fifties or sixties.

These people saying not to get a job what do they think is going to happen long term? Fit healthy people are statistically unlikely to die. And realistically people will have to get the virus.

Is his mother going to bank roll him for 18 months until a vaccine is available?

No people do not need to get the virus.
Do people just need to get smallpox or measles?

Yes, you both need to be looking for work and/or volunteering.

We need to understand that the likelihood is that most of us are going to get the virus at some point. Follow the government rules to keep the spread slow, but don't sit at home doing nothing, living off your mother in law, and think that's somehow helping.

Plenty of people are still going to work not medical front line staff but key workers, is it right that they've no choice. The work will need to start soon.
My DP is neither fit or twenty he has to go to work daily and deal with the public.
I am secretly delighted to be laid off work the fear of hopping on a bus is to much.

Why can't you go back to care work even temporarily? You'd be welcomed with open arms.